A senior doctor has warned 'the NHS cannot survive in its current state'
THE NHS cannot survive in its current state amid hundreds of vacancies a senior doctor has warned.said there needs to be a serious conversation on the service’s future.and social care system in Scotland is broken".He warned recruitment targets for GPs was being missed and there are too many vacancies for medics in hospitals also."In fact, many of my members are telling me that the NHS in Scotland has died already.
Dr Kennedy was speaking t the BBC Good Morning Scotland programme when he said he would be meeting with the Health Secretary Humza Yousaf in the New Year. He added there had been an"abject failure of workforce planning" and he said health staff were"exhausted, burnt-out and broken".He said:"Over the past two weeks I have received testimonies from nearly 200 doctors, and what they're telling me is that the whole health and social care system in Scotland is broken.
He said the number of vacancies in the health service was the worst he had seen in his 30-year career as a doctor.
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